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Views and Voices of Older New Yorkers
By Mario Rubano, MPH, Center for Healthy Aging, NYAM Today’s guest blogger is Mario Rubano, Policy Associate at NYAM’s Center for Healthy Aging. Mr. Rubano plays a central role in the Academy’s next...
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A Network of Eugenic Maternalism: Finding the New York Babies’ Welfare...
By Jamie Marsella, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, and the Library’s 2022 Paul Klemperer Fellow Ms. Marsella completed her Fellowship residency in summer 2022 and will...
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Maternal Mortality In New York City: NYAM’s Landmark 1933 Study
By Paul Theerman, Director NYAM’s 1933 maternal mortality report is one of the 30 highlights of “Celebrating NYAM Milestones,” prepared for our 175th anniversary in 2022. In 1930, the New York Academy...
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Stephen Smith, MD, New York Pioneer of Public Health
by Paul Theerman, Director At its Annual Meeting of the Fellows, November 12, 2020, The New York Academy of Medicine is presenting the Stephen Smith Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Public...
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Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century New York
By Lorna Ebner, Guest Contributor, Stony Brook University As COVID-19 races through New York, we asked Lorna Ebner to tell us about previous attempts to mitigate disease in the city. Ms. Ebner is a PhD...
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Highlighting NYAM Women in Medical History: Sara Josephine Baker, MD, DrPh
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer This the first entry in our series on female New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Fellows and their contributions to society. Please also see our biographical...
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Finding Cause in Street Cleanliness: The Citizens’ Association of New York...
By Anne Garner, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts It’s 1863. New York’s streets are dismal. Downtown, the scents of manure, garbage and chemicals permeate the air. The streets are littered with...
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Dr. David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic
Today’s guest post is written by Victoria Johnson, author of American Eden (Liveright, 2018). On October 9, Dr. Johnson will give a talk at the Academy on David Hosack (1769–1835), the visionary...
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis Opens
By Anne Garner, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts and Rebecca Jacobs, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of the City of New York Typist wearing mask, New York City, October, 16, 1918....
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The Architecture of Health Care (Part 2)
Today’s guest post is written by Bert Hansen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at Baruch College of CUNY. He is the author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass...
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The Architecture of Health Care (Part 1)
Today’s guest post is written by Bert Hansen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history at Baruch College of CUNY. He is the author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass...
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Ninety Years and Counting
By Arlene Shaner, Historical Collections Librarian Postcard showing entrance to The New York Academy of Medicine, n.d. On Saturday, October 15th tours of The New York Academy of Medicine’s building...
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Explore the Academy Library Timeline
By Robin Naughton, Head of Digital The New York Academy of Medicine Library began in 1847 with the intention of serving the Academy fellows, but in 1878, after the collection had expanded to include...
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The Influence of Sunshine and Pure Air: New York City Parks and Public Health
By Emily Miranker, Project Coordinator My first picnic of the summer was picture-book perfect. Norman Rockwell would have approved: my friends and I clustered on blankets sipping lemonade, lightly...
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Have You Heard of the Lincoln Collective?
Today’s guest blogger, Merlin Chowkwanyun, is an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He will present “The Lincoln Collective: The...
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Stories and Heritage of Nursing in New York City
The Fellows Nursing Section at The New York Academy of Medicine and the Academy Library invite you to join us next Thursday, April 14, at 6:00 PM for an evening exploring the stories and heritage of...
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Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study
By Paul Theerman, Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health How can we improve urban health? That is one of the missions of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a...
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Surviving the Great Blizzard of 1888
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian After the snowstorm on January 22–23, 2016 dropped 26.8 inches of snow on New York City, lists circulated of the worst snowstorms in the city’s...
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From Cholera to Zika: What History’s Pandemics Tell Us about the Next Contagion
By Sonia Shah Sonia Shah, today’s guest blogger, is a science journalist and author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola, and Beyond (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux,...
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Cholera Comes to New York City
By Anne Garner, Curator, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health In December, the Academy hosted the Commissioner’s Medical Grand Rounds Ebola: Past and Present panel discussion. In...
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